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This âtoothy follow-up to Datlowâs first-rate Blood Is Not Enoughâ offers âadmirably inventive variations on vampirismâ (Kirkus Reviews).  Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a âconsistently engrossing anthologyâ from award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Publishers Weekly). Continuing to expand the boundaries of the concept of vampirismâas she did in her first collection, Blood Is Not EnoughâDatlow has assembled eighteen fascinating stories that range from tales of literal vampires to what she calls âmetaphorical bloodsuckers,â who can drain anotherâs life force without ever sinking their teeth into necks.  In âNow I Lay Me Down to Sleepâ by Suzy McKee Charnas, an elderly Jewish woman whoâs taken her own life has second thoughts and makes a deal to become a vampire to stay immortal, the only condition being she has to drink blood by request only. An amnesiac operative tries to sort out if a secret government agency is trying to help him regain his memory or is wiping it clean in Chelsea Quinn Yarbroâs Kafkaesque âDo I Dare to Eat a Peach?â And in Jonathan Carrollâs âThe Moose Church,â a tourist in Sardinia is literally scarred by asking questions of death in his dreams . . .  A Whisper of Blood includes contributions by Suzy McKee Charnas, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Silverberg, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Massie, Barry N. Malzberg, Rick Wilber, Jonathan Carroll, Thomas Ligotti, Melissa Mia Hall, David J. Schow, Jack Womack, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Thomas Tessier, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, K. W. Jeter, Pat Cadigan, and Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth.  |
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